[Seaside] Making a download page

[Ricardo Jacas]

no, but i'm not trying anymore, thanks very much for the advice anyway

2011/3/20 AA <aa at serendip.demon.co.uk>

> Hi Avi, Ricardo
>
> I found my error!  I'd set the file download directory to be in my home
> directory: '/home/me/downloads'.  But, of course, this absolute path isn't
> recognised as a valid URL by nginx, so (duh!) that's why it wouldn't work.
>  After moving '/downloads' to the root directory (and changing the
> permissions), it works fine.
>
> I've also found it necessary to use 'attachmentWithFileName:', otherwise
> the web server assumes the content-disposition to be 'inline' rather than
> 'attached', and displays the file instead of saving it.
>
> Avi, thanks for all your help!  Ricardo, have you managed to get your
> downloads working yet?
>
> Amir
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:05:40 +0200
> Avi Shefi <avishefi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Amir,
> > Your code is fine, and works OK. The only thing that's wrong is that it
> uses
> > contentType:attachementWithFileName , whereas X-Accel-Redirect doesn't
> > require these headers. Using these headers will confuse browsers into
> > thinking that you're actually trying to download a file (without
> X-Sendfile
> > redirection). This is why you get a file with 0 bytes - there's no file
> > contents in the transport.
> >
> > You should use only contentType and X-Accel-Redirect to specify your
> file.
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